Press Releases / Real Estate

International law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) advised Hines Immobilien GmbH (Hines) on the acquisition of the Düsseldorf Arcaden shopping centre in the heart of Düsseldorf’s largest district Bilk. Hines acted as the acquisition manager on behalf of a special real estate investment fund managed by Union Investment and will take over as the asset […]

International law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has today (17 September 2015) announced the significant lateral hire of a team of six lawyers into its Berlin office from Orrick to expand its existing Real Estate and Infrastructure practice. Two partners, Dr Norbert Impelmann and Dr Albrecht von Breitenbuch, along with four other lawyers, will move […]

The construction of London’s new £4.2bn ‘super sewer’ – the Thames Tideway Tunnel – will begin next year. This follows the confirmation of independent investors to finance and deliver the scheme. Bazalgette Tunnel Limited is the new special-purpose company appointed to take the project forward, and today received its licence from Ofwat as a new […]

International law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has acted for Halite Energy Group in the successful making of “The Preesall Underground Gas Storage Facility Order 2015”, which grants development consent for an underground gas storage facility in Preesall, Lancashire. The Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change made the order on 17 July 2015, […]

International law firm, Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), has acted for Lloyds Bank plc and M&G Investments as the senior lenders on the £160m refinancing of a portfolio of Thistle hotels owned by Topland on 3 July of this year. The portfolio comprises six hotels, five of which are based in central London (the Bloomsbury Park […]

International law firm, Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), has acted for US REIT, Ventas Inc, on its £55m acquisition of five care homes in the London region from Churchgate Estates Limited. The portfolio has been simultaneously let to operator, Canford Healthcare Limited, on 25 year leases at an annual rent of £3.7m. This is the second […]

International law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has advised Prime Investors Capital Limited in relation to the acquisition of the long leasehold of Admiralty Arch from the UK Government, which completed ahead of schedule on 17 June. BLP acted on all UK aspects of the transaction including the equity and debt funding and the negotiations […]

International law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has acted for the long term owners of The Stage, Shoreditch, who have secured the development of a new £750m GDV mixed-use scheme. The site is less than five minutes’ walk from Liverpool Street station, and incorporates the remains of Shakespeare’s 16th century Curtain Theatre, where Romeo and […]

International law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), has today (16 April 2015) announced the appointments of partners Roland Fabian and Russell Clifford to its board. Roland is Managing Partner of BLP Germany and part of the Real Estate & Infrastructure team and Russell is the Practice Group Head of BLP’s global Asset Finance group. Roland, […]

International law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has today (20 March 2015) announced the significant lateral hire of a team of nine lawyers in Hong Kong from Haley & Co, an independent, boutique law firm specialising in major projects, construction and arbitration. Three partners, Glenn Haley, Ilan Freiman and Geoff Shaw will move to BLP’s […]